The Wiggen's Travels
Our travels around the world.

OR Kevin Butting Heads with the Locals

Here are some shots from my recent travels:

As some of you might know, being at high altitude can cause problems (and even death) for people.  The begining symptoms is called AMS (basically altitude sickness).  When we slept at 4000M I had a headache.  This scared me as there was already a couple that turned around when the woman started puking and had […]

Well I made the trek around the Annapurna Circuit.  It was a great trip.  Everyday it felt like we were hiking through a new area.  One day was freezing with many days in shorts.  Somedays we followed a river, somedays through a dry riverbed with lots of wind and sand.  All in all a great […]

So yesterday we woke up at 2:30 am and walked from 4,500 meters (abiyt 14,500 ft) over the Thoroung-La pass which is 5416 meters (17769 ft).  Crazy day.  9 hours of hiking.  Lots of UP and then even MORE down.  LONG LONG day.  But I made it and we are in the middle of 6 […]

I am currently sitting in Chame, Nepal.  I have done 4 of 16 days of hiking for the Annapurna Circuit.  So far the IT Bands are holding out ok.  In fact I feel pretty good.  Everyday is a lot of climbing so far, but with my Spanish Training, it has not been that bad.  In […]

Well I have arrived in Kathmandu without issue.  One interesting thing is my phone does NOT work here (although AT&T says it should).  So I think I will be without phone and internet for the next 3 weeks while I trek.  I will be doing blog updates on my phone, but you won’t see them […]

Well I am back in sfo waiting for my flight out of the country. With a brief stop in la followed by a 17 hour flight to bangkok (I get to fly through there again to the second time on two months) I will hop a 3 hour flight to Kathmandu. With a night there […]